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PowerFront

By: PowerFront

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PowerFront provides a complete content management solution that can include: content manager, website design, security options, e-commerce, procurement, reporting options and hosting. It aims to host complex business websites, intranets, extranets or procurement websites.

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Contents
  1. Description
  2. System requirements
  3. Features
    1. Website module
    2. CMS (Content Management System) module
    3. ESI (External Search Integration) module
    4. Product catalogue module
    5. Transaction module
    6. Audience module
    7. Forms – eMail – SMS module
    8. Forums module
    9. Newsletters module
    10. Site designer module
    11. Web log reporting module
  4. Communities
  5. See also

Description

PowerFront is a commercial content management system (CMS) developed in ASP that offers a application suitable for:

  • Content Management System (CMS)
  • e-Commerce (B2C)
  • Intranet (business to emloyee)
  • Extranet (B2B)
  • Procurement (B2B)

PowerFront is very easy to use for a enterprise level CMS. Also, the company offers many collateral solutions for the designing, building, writing and uploading the content of the website. Usually they offer a training too, for making sure the client's team will be able to update the site / intranet / extranet by himself.

Powerfront CMS is developed by Powerfront in Melbourne, Australia.

System requirements

PowerFront runs on a IIS Server (Windows Server 2003 operating system recommended) with ASP programming language and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database.

Features

PowerFront is designed with a modular approach that gives the client the possibility to pay only what they needed. There are available different modules for:

  • content management (CMS)
  • web site design
  • search engine optimization (SEO)
  • security
  • e-commerce
  • procurement
  • reporting

Website module

It can be used for one or multiple sites sharing content like:

  • articles
  • products
  • forms
  • repository
  • Administration interface

It can be used to implement:

  • Intranets
  • Extranets
  • Standard websites
  • Member Sites
  • Clubs
  • Client sites
  • Kid's sites
  • PDA smaller interface
  • Multi store / outlet group sites
  • multi-site franchise-type projects

CMS (Content Management System) module

It allows the access to a admin interface where many administrators can be defined with various permissions and access levels for each. It includes the ability to publish:

  • information pages
  • images gallery
  • multimedia files
  • downloadable files

ESI (External Search Integration) module

ESI module submits the website URLs to the most popular search engines.

Product catalogue module

It allows the publication and managing of products within nested categories that can be used for:

  • Online product catalogue
  • Online store
  • Wholesale online orders
  • Manufacturer product reference
  • Product manuals

Multiple prices, inventory control, cross category filters and specials features are available.

Transaction module

It is used for e-Commerce tasks, the features including payment gateways, BPay and some manual payment methods.

It can beused to implement:

  • Online stores
  • Membership and Application forms
  • Online invoicing systems

Audience module

It allows to publish confidential content in a secured environment or the presentation of differing content to different categories of visitors.

Forms – eMail – SMS module

It allows to design and publish forms for collecting data or feedback from visitors and to manage the submitted forms.

This module can be used to implement:

  • Enquiry forms
  • HR forms
  • Application forms
  • Booking forms
  • Surveys or Voting
  • White paper repository service
  • Simple visitor file management
  • Simple directories
  • Online classifieds

Forums module

It allows to create a forum on the website, that can be controlled and moderated by the administrators.

Newsletters module

HTML newsletters can be created and distributed to a database. It includes audience segmentation, targeting and reporting features.

Site designer module

It allows to design the website functionalities from a mock-up or story board. The designer can use some building blocks to construct the website in realtime.

Web log reporting module

It offers usage statistics fin real-time:

  • top referrals
  • top products
  • top articles (information page)
  • newsletter click-through rates

Communities

See also

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